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ALBUQUERQUE – Benjamin Shiosee, 38, a member and resident of Laguna Pueblo, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, to 36 months in prison followed by 25 years of supervised release. Shiosee will also be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence....
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Standing Rock man sentenced to 21 Years on sex abuse charges
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ALBUQUERQUE – Julius H. Willie, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Standing Rock, N.M., was sentenced this morning in Albuquerque, N.M., to 21 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his aggravated sexual abuse conviction. Willie will also be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 11th Judicial District Attorney Division 2 Karl Gillson, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, Director Jesse Delmar of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety, and Chief Robert Cron of the Gallup Police...
ALBUQUERQUE – Julius H. Willie, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Standing Rock, N.M., was sentenced this morning in Albuquerque, N.M., to 21 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his aggravated sexual abuse conviction. Willie will also be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 11th Judicial District Attorney Division 2 Karl Gillson, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, Director Jesse Delmar of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety, and Chief Robert Cron of the Gallup Police...
FBI seeks woman who robbed ABQ bank one year ago
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On Octobe
r 27, 2015, between approximately 12:30 pm and 1 pm., an unknown female robbed the Bank of Albuquerque branch located at 4201 Wyoming Boulevard NE in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The FBI and Albuquerque Police Department are still looking for her.
Anyone with information about this robbery is asked to call the FBI at (505) 889-1300 or Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at (505) 843-STOP.
Tips also can be submitted online at tips.fbi.gov.
The FBI may pay a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to arrest and conviction of this bank robber.
Information about this and other bank robbers wanted by the FBI can be found at bankrobbers.fbi.gov.
GALLUP HIGH HIRES NEW HOOP COACH
Details still fuzzy on former coach’s dismissalWilbert Nez is the new head girls basketball coach at Gallup High School, officials confirmed. Nez started the job Nov. 1.
The hiring, which was finalized Oct. 28, brings closure to a tumultuous situation that saw the Lady Bengals’ previous head coach, Kamau Turner, terminated from the job by Gallup-McKinley County Schools Superintendent Frank Chiapetti in July.
Nez teaches Navajo language and culture at Gallup High School.
“We have hired a new girls coach for the basketball team,” Dominick Romero, principal at Gallup High, said. “He is someone who has worked at Gallup High the past several years.”
Romero said Nez was...
Pellington: ‘We’re optimistic that this [bond] will pass’
$103K at stake for Gallup’s Octavia Fellin Public LibraryShould a $10.1 million library bond matter go through on Nov. 8, public libraries around New Mexico would benefit in myriad ways, officials say.
Bond B, one of four state bonds on next week’s ballot, would impact public libraries, students from K-12, and construction projects at higher institutions of learning.
Gallup Library Director Mary Ellen Pellington said $103,181.80 is at stake for the Octavia Fellin Public Library and the city’s Children’s Branch. She is urging Gallupians to get out and vote.
“This helps in a tremendous and in a very positive way,” Pellington said. “We’re optimistic that this will...
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